Two-part heel



April 14, 1925.

L. BUCKNER TWO-PART HEEL File'd Sept. 17. 1921 INVENTOR By W. TQM

Y M A TTORNE rs r and I do'hereb'y Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

ICE.

mien BUCKNER, or NEW YORK, n. Y.

TWO-PART HEEL.

Application filed September 17, 1921.

To all who-m it may concern.

Be it known that I, LnoN BUCKNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain ne\ Y and useful ln'iprovements in TWO Pfll'll Heels; declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to detachable heels which are preferably madeof some such resilient material as rubber, although any desired material might be. used.

v In my copending application, Serial N o. 1 491,922, filed August 13, 1921, there is shown a number of different forms of twopart detachable heels; This invention also relates to two-part detachable heels, the inner part being preferably attached more or material and as has been outer heel slidably engages less permanently to the shoe and the outer part, which is being provided With various means, as will be described-for holding the outer heel in place.

The inner heel is preferably made of a solid block of rubber or equivalent resilient stated, is nailed to the shoe. The outer heel is substantially U- shaped and extends around on the outside of theinner heel, the two together cooperating to form a complete heel. This invention is more particularly concerned with various mechanisms for attaching theouter heel to the inner heel so that the outer heel may be readily taken Off by the user, after it has become worn, and a new one readily put in place, without the necessity of going, to a shoemaker, as is usually the case.

In accordance with this invention the the inner heel and is slid into engagement with the inner heel. V

The advantage ofhaving a two-part heel comprising an inner and an outer portion is that inasmuch as most of the wear on a heel when in actual use takes place on the outer part, a practically new heel may be had, according to'this invention, by simply taking off the worn outer part and putting a new outer part in place. Furthermore, according to this invention, this may be done by the user of the heel himself, without the necessity of going to a shoemaker.

preferably U-shaped, being 7 made readily detachable and Serial No. 501,415.

In the accompanying drawings- Fig. 1 1s a plan view of the ground side of the two-part heel;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

To describe the drawings more in detail, indicates the inner heel, which may be a solid block of rubber attached to the shoe 2 by the fastening elements 3. The periphery of this inner heel is substantially U- shaped. The inner heel, at its front and rear ends, on the side adjacent the shoe, is undercut, as indicated at 37.

Referring first to Fig. 1, the inner heel 30 carries a plate 32 provided with saw cuts 33 defining an elastic tongue 34. Two latching lugs 35 are struck from the tongue portion. Two other latching lugs 36 are struck from the rear part of the plate 32. The, inner heel is undercut at the front and rear, adjacent the shoe, as indicated at 37. The lugs 35 and 36 extend into the undercut portions.

The outer heel 6 has embedded in it a plate 38, which is more or less U-shaped, the

.inner edges of this plate being indicated at 39. A central tongue 40 carried by the plate defines two notches 42 for the lugs 36. At the front the outer plate has two apertures 43 cut in which the lugs 35 engage. outer heel is put in place by sliding from the left, the outer plate 38 engaging over the inner plate 32, the lugs 36 seating in the notches 42 and the lugs 35 engaging in the apertures 43. In order to remove the outer heel, the tongue 34: is moved away from the shoe, thus disengaging the lugs 35, whereupon the heel is removed by sliding it to the left.

While the invention has been illustrated in one form, it should be understood that mechanical details may be considerably modified within the principle of the invention and that therefore the invention is not limited to any precise structural embodiment. It should also be understood while rubber is the preferred material, either or both parts of the heel may be made of any desired material.

I claim as my invention:

1. A two part heel comprising an inner heel portion attached to the shoe, a U-shaped outer heel portion of resilient material, plates carried respectively by the inner and outer heel portions, and latching means ear- The . inner heel,

ried by said plates for latching themt o gether for. holding the two heel portions in place.

2. A two part heel comprising an inner heel portion attached to the shoe, a U-shaped outer heel, plates respectively carried by the inner and outer heel and adapted to slidz bly engage each other, and latching means associated with said plates for latching them together. v

A two part heel comprising an inner heel portion attached to the shoe, a Ll-shaped outer heel, plates respectively carried by .the inner and outer heel and adapted to slid-ably engage each other, latching means associatedwith said plates for latching them together, anda finger piece carried by one of the plates for unlatching purposes.

4. A two part heel comprising an inner heel portion attached to the shoe, a plate provided with latching lugs,'carr1ed by the a U shaped outerv heel and a plate embedded in the outer heel provided with latching openings adapted to be engaged by the said latching lugs when the outer heel is slidably engaged with the inner heel. e

A two part heel comprising an inner heel portion attached to the shoe, a plate carried by the inner heel, an elastic tongue formed as part of the said plate, a latching device carried by said tongue, a U-shaped outer heel, and a plate carried by the outer heel, provided with means or cooperating with the said latching device for latching the two said plates together.

6. A two part heel comprising an inner heel portion attached to the shoe, a plate carried by the inner heel, an elastic latching element, carried by said plate, a U-shaped outer heel, and a plate carried by the outer heel for slid bly engaging with the plate carried by the inner heel, provided with latching means for cooperating with the latching element on the inner heel plate; t

7. A two part heel comprising an. inner heel portion attached togtlieshoe, a plate carried by theinner heel portion, a ltd-shaped outer heel po'rtion,'a plate carried by the outer heel portion' s'aild two plates adapted to slidably engage each other, latching means associated with the two plates, and manually operated means ttor actuating the latching means. 7

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

' or LEON'BUGKNER' 

